Voter fraud: Prosecution of double voting rare

Many fraud allegations deal with petitions

7:23 AM,
Nov. 4, 2012

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Last year, the Richland County Prosecutor's Office received a report of voter fraud from the local board of elections. A man had voted twice: once with an absentee ballot and again on Election Day.

Further investigation revealed the man was elderly and suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and he simply forgot about his first vote. Richland County First Assistant Prosecutor Brent Robinson said it would have been illogical and nearly impossible to prosecute the man for violating Ohio's law against voting twice.

Most allegations of double voting in Ohio end in a similar way. Local prosecutors ...